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John L. Holmes

John L. Holmes

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Chemistry

D-Index
52
Citations
9207
World Ranking
13558
National Ranking
366

Overview

John L. Holmes is affiliated with the University of Ottawa in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Medicine and Health Professions, with a significant emphasis on epidemiology and clinical psychology within these broader domains.

Their subfields of study include Epidemiology, General Health Professions, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Health, and Clinical Psychology. The main topics covered by their work concentrate on Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes, Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects, Homelessness and Social Issues, Health Disparities and Outcomes, Smoking Behavior and Cessation, Health Policy Implementation Science, and Gambling Behavior and Treatments.

Holmes has published extensively in various academic venues, frequently contributing to:

  • Addiction
  • Drug and Alcohol Review
  • International Journal of Drug Policy
  • Social Science & Medicine
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Mitigating and learning from the impact of COVID-19 infection on addictive disorders (2020, Addiction)
  • Causal mechanisms proposed for the alcohol harm paradox-a systematic review (2021, Addiction)
  • Declining drinking among adolescents: Are we seeing a denormalisation of drinking and a normalisation of non-drinking? (2021, Addiction)
  • Beyond Behaviour: How Health Inequality Theory Can Enhance Our Understanding of the 'Alcohol-Harm Paradox' (2021, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health)
  • Clustering of health-related behaviours within children aged 11-16: a systematic review (2021, BMC Public Health)

Holmes has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Petra Meier, Abigail K. Stevely, Colin Angus, Jamie Brown, and Alan Brennan. Each of these collaborators has worked with Holmes on multiple projects, reflecting ongoing research partnerships.

Best Publications

  • Assigning structures to ions in the gas phase

    John L. Holmes

  • The neutralization of organic cations

    John L. Holmes

  • The scope of metastable peak observations

    John L. Holmes;Johan K. Terlouw

  • A collaboratively-derived science-policy research agenda

    William J. Sutherland;Laura Bellingan;Jim R. Bellingham;Jason J. Blackstock;Jason J. Blackstock

  • Gas-phase heats of formation of keto and enol ions of carbonyl compounds

    John L. Holmes;F. P. Lossing

  • Stabilization energy and ion size in carbocations in the gas phase.

    F. P. Lossing;John L. Holmes

  • Heats of formation of oxygen-containing organic free radicals from appearance energy measurements

    John L. Holmes;Fred P. Lossing;Paul M. Mayer

  • The radical cation [CH2OH2]+.cntdot. and related stable gas-phase ion-dipole complexes

    J. L. Holmes;F. P. Lossing;J. K. Terlouw;P. C. Burgers

  • Neutral products of ion fragmentations: HCN and HNC identified by collisionally induced dissociative ionization

    Peter C. Burgers;John L. Holmes;Alexander A. Mommers;Johan K. Terlouw

  • The gas phase ion chemistry of the acetyl cation and isomeric [C2H3O]+ ions. On the structure of the [C2H3O]+ daughter ions generated from the enol of acetone radical cation

    Peter C. Burgers;John L. Holmes;Jan E. Szulejko;Alexander A. Mommers

  • Metastable ion studies (VIII): An analytical method for deriving kinetic energy release distributions from metastable peaks

    J.L. Holmes;A.D. Osborne

  • Heats of formation and bond dissociation energies in halogen-substituted methyl and ethyl radicals

    John L. Holmes;F. P. Lossing

  • Heats of formation of ionic and neutral enols of acetaldehyde and acetone

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  • Towards a general scheme for estimating the heats of formation of organic ions in the gas phase. Part I. Odd-electron cations

    John L. Holmes;Mervin Fingas;F. P. Lossing

  • Carbanion rearrangements. Collision-induced dissociations of the enolate ion of heptan-4-one

    Michael B. Stringer;John H. Bowie;John L. Holmes

  • Heats of formation of organic radicals from appearance energies

    John L. Holmes;F.P. Lossing

  • Lay epidemiology and the interpretation of low-risk drinking guidelines by adults in the United Kingdom

    Melanie Lovatt;Melanie Lovatt;Douglas Eadie;Douglas Eadie;Petra S. Meier;Petra S. Meier;Jessica Li;Jessica Li

  • Novel gas-phase ions. The radical cations [CH2XH]+• (X = F, Cl, Br, I, OH, NH2, SH) and [CH2CH2NH3]+•

    John L. Holmes;F. P. Lossing;Johan K. Terlouw;Peter C. Burgers

  • Neutralization–reionization mass spectrometry applied to organometallic and coordination chemistry (update: 1994–1998)

    Dmitri V. Zagorevskii;Dmitri V. Zagorevskii;John L. Holmes;John L. Holmes

  • Metastable ion studies: XIII—the measurement of appearance energies of metastable peaks

    Peter C. Burgers;John L. Holmes

  • Neutralization‐reionization mass spectrometry applied to organometallic and coordination chemistry

    Dmitri V. Zagorevskii;John L. Holmes

  • Collisionally induced dissociative ionization of neutral products from unimolecular ion fragmentations. 1—Neutral product structures

    Peter C. Burgers;John L. Holmes;Alexander A. Mommers;Jan E. Szulejko

Frequent Co-Authors

Peder Wolkoff
Peder Wolkoff National Research Centre for the Working Environment
Leo Radom
Leo Radom University of Sydney
John H. Bowie
John H. Bowie University of Adelaide
Helmut Schwarz
Helmut Schwarz Technical University of Berlin
Tomas Baer
Tomas Baer University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
David R. S. Lean
David R. S. Lean University of Ottawa
Clifford H. Watson
Clifford H. Watson Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Alfonso Castiñeiras
Alfonso Castiñeiras University of Santiago de Compostela
Theo M. Luider
Theo M. Luider Erasmus University Rotterdam
Chava Lifshitz
Chava Lifshitz Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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